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<< Our Photo Pages >> Midas City - Ancient Village or Settlement in Turkey

Submitted by davidmorgan on Thursday, 07 December 2006  Page Views: 17063

Multi-periodSite Name: Midas City Alternative Name: Midas Şehri
Country: Turkey Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Afyon  Nearest Village: Kayi
Latitude: 39.199500N  Longitude: 30.713400E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 5 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
 4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Midas City submitted by davidmorgan : The shrine of Cybele or the Midas Monument. August 1993. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Phrygian city and religious centre dating from the 7th century BCE in Turkey.
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Midas City submitted by davidmorgan : Another view of the shrine to Cybele with myself for scale. September 1993. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Midas City submitted by davidmorgan : The rock-carved altar overlooks the site. September 1993. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Midas City submitted by durhamnature : Old drawing from "History of Egypt...." via archive.org Site in Turkey (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Midas City submitted by davidmorgan : Rock-carved steps leading down to the water cistern. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Midas City submitted by davidmorgan : The Midas monument seen from the side.

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Midas City submitted by davidmorgan : An altar carved into one of the rocks on the plateau.

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Midas City submitted by davidmorgan : Unfinished Monument: This monument is located on the western skirts of the Midas city. It lies approximately 200 m southwest of the Midas monument. The researchers emphasize the disproportionality of the sizes of building elements that constituted the façade and believe that the monument was left unfinished. Therefore, it was called the Unfinished Monument. It is locally called Küçük Yazilikay...

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Midas City submitted by davidmorgan : Grand Altar of Midas City: It is situated on the highest section of the Midas city plateau, approximately 30 m west of the road which climbs to the plateau from the east. It is the most beautiful and, based on its dimensions, the most monumental of the Phrygian altars. It has twin idols and three steps. The first step which is 0.6 m high forms the base of the altar. The second and third steps were...

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Midas City submitted by davidmorgan : Hyacinth (Sümbüllü) Monument: This monument is situated on the eastern skirt of the Midas city plateau, 50 m south of the ancient road which leads to the plateau. The façade was called so because of similarity of the monument's acroterium to the hyacinth flowers. Facing the northeast, it measures 3.9 m in height, and 3.23 m in width, and it is 1.6 m high above the ground level. During the 193... (1 comment)

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Midas City submitted by davidmorgan : The inscriptions on the altar are just visible in the morning sunlight.

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Midas City submitted by davidmorgan : One of the inscribed rocks by the main processional path up to the rock plateau. It needs the morning sun.

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Midas City submitted by davidmorgan : The Phrygian inscription at the top left of the Midas Monument. (4 comments)

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Midas City submitted by davidmorgan : The Phrygian inscription up the right side of the Midas Monument.

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Midas City submitted by davidmorgan : The "Unfinished Monument", one of the reliefs at Midas City.

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Ancient rock-cut reliefs await restoration by Andy B on Monday, 18 June 2007
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Rock cracks caused by natural conditions are posing a threat of splitting apart the Yazılıkaya Monument, one of the world’s most significant rock-cut reliefs, in Eskişehir’s Han district.

During the sixth century B.C. the Phrygians chose Yazılıkaya as their religious center, where in the name of their king Midas they constructed a temple dedicated to their goddess Kibele.

The still undeciphered inscriptions, headstones, reliefs, altars and engravings at the site are the most significant and unique historical remains from the Phrygian period. Inscriptions on the 17-meter-high Yazılıkaya Monument itself, located on the eastern side of the Yazılıkaya elevation, are still unsolved, with local and foreign epigraphists laboring to decipher them. While these monuments have stood up to the elements of time until now, nature has taken its toll, causing serious damage that needs to be repaired as soon as possible.

In 1981, the Eskişehir Governor’s Office initiated actions to repair Yazılıkaya. A team was formed to research ways to fix the cracks, such as filling them. The only thing that was accomplished, however, was placing a wire fence around the monument.

In 1988, Eskişehir Governor Bahaeddin Güney launched the Yazılıkaya Monument Preservation Project. Reports by the Middle East Technical University were ready in 1989. At the time the recommendations could not be carried out due to the failure to find resources required for repair and restoration. The Eskişehir Governor’s Office applied to UNESCO through the Foreign Ministry.

Since they don’t provide financial aid, UNESCO offered to provide technical materials and consulting services. The work stopped before it advanced into the second phase.

In 1995, the Ministry of Culture used Anadolu University to prepare the Yazılıkaya Monument Preservation Project. In their reports, specialists stressed the damages caused by the stone stoves of that area. After this, during the same year, the Monuments and Museums General Directorate arranged a meeting to discuss the issue of Yazılıkaya’s preservation.

Participants of this meeting stressed that due to natural causes, the existing cracks on the monument were growing.

In the same period, the Municipal Culture Directorate also requested that Anadolu University draft the Phrygian Valley Rearrangement Project. Actions foreseen by this project remained realized.

In 1996, the Cultural and Natural Heritage Preservation General Directorate decided that all village houses too close to an archeological or natural site should be removed and, with the purposes of preventing further illegal building, to undertake compulsory actions. Because of the lack of resources, this project was also unfulfilled.

In 2002, the Eskişehir Cultural and Natural Heritage Preservation General Directorate prepared the Yazılıkaya and Surroundings Protection Project, which produced no results, either. Tour companies bring tourists interested in the Phrygian period to this area to show them Yazılıkaya Monument, 39 kilometers from Eskişehir.


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